In France, rights groups plan to file a complaint about police brutality, after a video surfaced showing officers using excessive force to evict African immigrants from a Paris suburb.
The footage shows police dragging away women with their babies as well as young children.
The group of 60 people had been living in the streets since being evicted from their council homes earlier this month.
The group of mostly women and children had been ordered to move to make way for a new housing project.
The footage shows a screaming woman with a baby wrapped to her back being dragged along the pavement. Another scene shows a pregnant woman lying on her back on the street.
According to France 24 the footage was recorded on July 21 by an observer from the Droit au Logement (Right to Housing) association and uploaded on the internet by French news site Mediapart and broadcast by CNN on Tuesday.
Most of the immigrants are from the Ivory Coast. Some of them had been living in France for ten years and were not illegal immigrants.
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Jenbow
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Considering much of the French football team is made up of immigrants or are descendants of immigrants, I feel they have a duty to condemn this action and demand a reprieve for those so inhumanely treated and to demand an apology from the French Primiinster. France was once historicallly hailed as a beacon of liberty and justice under Sarkozy's watch it has become a mirror of those forces it once sought so desperately against in WW2. Shame on you Sarkozy, shame on your police. Shame on all those who do not speak out. |
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H Khan
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I sincerely pray to Allah (swt) that those who executed this inhumane act as well as those who authorised / legitimised it are similarly draged in to the HELLFIRE. Utterly despicable behaviour from the so-called "First World" nation. |
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badreddine
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Police brutality is not something new in France as a native from this country, I do know. French Police and French institution are xenophob. It is the french who send the 6 million of jews to burn in poland. They hate everything which is not white and christian. It will not be the last time, as you can do a search on the net "France police brutality". My question is where were theirs husband? Where are the so called human right activist?Someone should be brought to accont for this horrile events. |
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